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Word: terse (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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The costumes - sequins and satins from the rubbish bins of recent history - suggest a high school prom queen masquerading as a tart. The songs are renovated memories from as far back as the '20s: rockers like Do You Want to Dance? and Leader of the Pack, smoky laments like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Trash with Flash | 9/10/1973 | See Source »

There is an appealing performance by Jennifer Salt as the investigative journalist whose cries of "Wolf, wolf!" go unheeded until it is almost too late, and Margot Kidder is touching and frightening as the most thoroughly split personality in movie history. Above all, however, Sisters reveals De Palma as capable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Half Hitch | 4/30/1973 | See Source »

Many medical and legal authorities object to substituting one form of addiction for another. Others are concerned about the lack of supervision in some treatment centers. Unless the cen ters check urine samples daily, addicts can continue to use heroin. But the program has solid support among those addicts enrolled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: How Addicts Are Treated | 3/16/1970 | See Source »

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